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Nine in Ten Security Leaders Concerned About AI-Generated Code Risks as Salt Security Launches New Governance Tool
The rapid adoption of AI coding assistants is creating a new governance challenge for enterprise security teams, according to research released by Salt Security, which found that nine in ten security leaders are concerned about the security risks associated with…
Acumen Cyber and AttackIQ Partner to Strengthen Cyber Defense Validation
Acumen Cyber has announced a strategic partnership with AttackIQ to help organizations continuously validate their cyber defenses against real-world threats and reduce exposure to modern attacks. The partnership combines Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led security operations expertise with AttackIQ’s Continuous Threat Exposure…
Check Point Launches AI Agents That Think Like Attackers as Autonomous Exploitation Reaches Critical Threat Level
Check Point Software has launched Agentic Exposure Validation (AEV), a new AI-driven capability within its Exposure Management platform that uses autonomous agents to reason like attackers and provide security teams with hard evidence of what is genuinely exploitable in their…
Proton Mail Lets Users Send and Receive Gmail Directly Without Giving Google Access to Proton Inbox
Swiss privacy company Proton has rolled out a significant update to Proton Mail that allows users to connect their Gmail accounts directly to the platform. The feature, announced on 28 May 2026, enables Gmail messages to be imported into Proton…
The AI Phishing Revolution: From Spray-and-Pray to Autonomous Operations
Evolution of AI Phishing As with most cyber threats, AI has created a fundamental shift in the phishing threat landscape. It has become a precision operation powered by AI systems that research, build, deliver, and adapt campaigns autonomously. AI acts…
ECB Urges Banks to Tackle AI Security Threats
This week the European Central Bank (ECB), which supervises about 111 of the eurozone’s largest banks, convened at an urgent meeting with major lenders to accelerate efforts around AI security and heed caution on the cyber risks of AI. Officials…
AI coding tools are widening the security validation gap, survey finds
New research from offensive security firm Pentest-Tools.com has quantified a growing disconnect between the speed at which AI tools are generating code and the ability of security teams to validate it before it reaches production, with significant implications for enterprise…
Most Organisations Can’t See Their AI Traffic and Attackers Are Already Exploiting That
A new report released today by Check Point Software lays out in stark terms how far enterprise security architecture has fallen behind AI adoption and the incidents already resulting from that gap. The 2026 Cloud Security Report, produced in partnership…
Q&A – Resilient You: The Cyber Agony Aunts Are Back!
The Cyber Agony Aunts – Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, and Amelia Hewitt, Founder of CybAid and Co-Founder and Director of Cyber Consulting at Principle Defence – are back! After a whirlwind of a year, with the…
Proton Launches Credential Tokens to Tackle AI Agent Security Gap
A growing tension sits at the heart of enterprise AI deployments: organisations want agents to act autonomously, yet handing over passwords and API keys to automated systems represents a significant and largely unresolved security risk. Proton is now attempting to…
Industry Reacts to Verizon DBIR 2026 as Vulnerability Exploitation Takes Top Spot
The 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has sparked widespread industry reaction, with security leaders warning that AI-enabled attacks, vulnerability exploitation, and third-party risk are reshaping the threat landscape faster than many organisations can respond. For the first time…
Critical flaw in software powering a third of the internet is already being exploited – free checker now available
A critical security vulnerability in NGINX, the web server software underpinning more than 30% of all websites globally, has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild, less than a week after its public disclosure. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-42945…
Certes Research Warns Legacy Systems Are Biggest Barrier to Quantum Security Readiness
Certes has released new research showing that many organizations remain unprepared for the security risks posed by quantum computing, despite growing awareness of the threat. According to the company’s Emerging PQC Imperative report, 78% of organizations believe legacy systems represent…
The Invisible Workforce: Why Your Household Apps Now Have Their Own Digital IDs
Most people understand what it means to protect a human identity because the dangers of someone impersonating you online or stealing and cloning your card are immediately obvious. Today, organisations rely on thousands of non-human identities that belong to software…
Cyber Agony Aunts: New book Offers Practical Look at Resilience
Last week, Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, and Amelia Hewitt, Director of Cyber Consulting at Principle Defence and Founder of CybAid, released their second co-authored book Resilient You: An Agony Aunts’ Guide To Keeping It…
Why Commercial Cyber Threat Intelligence is Failing Defence Operations
Cyber is no longer a supporting capability. It now shapes how defence organisations plan, assess and act. Across NATO and allied forces, cyber intelligence is increasingly embedded into operational planning, from situational awareness through to targeting and strategic decision-making. At…
Securing the AI Supply Chain in the European Union
The European Union’s AI strategy is entering a new phase. What began as a commitment to “trustworthy AI,” grounded in ethics and human rights, is now evolving into a legally enforceable framework for technically secure AI. EU-specific AI, data and…
Check Point Wants AI Agents to Do What Security Teams Can’t: Manage Networks at Machine Speed
Check Point has launched an agentic orchestration platform that can end the policy drift, stalled Zero Trust projects, and manual configuration backlogs that have plagued enterprise security teams for decades. The company’s Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform is built around…
Cyber attackers bypass traditional defences as ‘user-driven’ attacks surge, Bridewell warns
Cyber attackers are increasingly sidestepping traditional security tools by exploiting users themselves, according to Bridewell’s newly released Cyber Threat Intelligence Report 2026. The report highlights a significant shift in attacker behaviour, with threat actors moving away from malware-heavy campaigns towards…